Ratings2
Average rating4
Warned about the womanizing activities of Professor Nicholas Brodeur before her arrival at his prestigious university, graduate student Regina Gottlieb is nevertheless captured by his charisma and good looks before falling prey to his volatile wife.
An intimately charged novel of desire and disaster. Regina Gottlieb had been warned about Professor Nicholas Brodeur long before arriving as a graduate student at his prestigious university high on a pastoral hill. But no one has warned Regina about his exceptional physical beauty-- or his charismatic, volatile wife. Regina's mistakes only begin in the bedroom, and end-- if they do-- fifteen years in the future and thousands of miles away. By turns erotic and completely catastrophic, Regina's misadventures demonstrate what can happen when the chasm between desire and duty is too wide to bridge.
Reviews with the most likes.
Full disclosure: this book was written for me. Academic setting + comedy of manners + a healthy serving of perversion + biting wit + earthy/salacious/weirdly yeasty sex scenes = the exact type of highbrow trash that I love. Think Pedro Almodovar without a murder or plastic surgery.
At the end of the day, it's a shaggy dog story that ends in the oldest punchline in the book, the...
(I don't want to do all the work for you)